Oxime ethers

ABSTRACT

New oxime ethers and pesticidal and herbicidal preparations containing them are disclosed. The oxime ethers correspond to the formula   wherein R.sub.1, is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl radical; R.sub.2 is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radical; or wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 form part of a saturated or unsaturated carbocycle of a 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocycle; R.sub.3 is a nitro, trifluoromethyl, formyl, lower carbalkoxy, sulfamyl or mono- or di-lower alkyl sulfamyl radical; R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each is a hydrogen or halogen atom, an amino, mono- or di-lower alkyl amino, lower alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, lower alkylthio, nitro, lower carbalkoxy, arylthio, lower aralkylthio or lower alkyl group, or 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocycle.

- United States Patent 1191 Hubele Apr. 8, 1975 OXIME ETHERS [75] Inventor: Adolf Hubele, Riehen, Switzerland [73] Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland [22] Filed: Mar. 8, 1973 [2]] App]. No.: 339,247

Related US. Application Data [60] Division of Ser. No. 46,832, June 16. 1970, Pat. No, 3,733,359, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 521,413,.Ian. 18. I966, abandoned.

[30] Foreign Application Priority Data Jan. 22, 1965 Switzerland 915/65 July 9, 1965 Switzerland... [630/65 [52] US. Cl. 260/556 B; 260/397.7 R [51] Int. Cl. C076 143/78 [58] Field of Search... 260/556 B, 566 AE, 397.7 R; 46/332 [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,423,470 1/1969 Rohr et al. 260/556 B Prinmry E.\'aminer-Henry R. .liles Assistant Examiner-S. D. Winters Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Frederick H. Rabin 5 7 ABSTRACT New oxime ethers and pesticidal and herbicidal preparations containing them are disclosed. The oxime ethers correspond to the formula 5 Claims, No Drawings OXIME ETHERS CROSS REFERENCE This is a division of application Ser. No. 46,832, filed on June 16, 1970, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,733,359 which in turn is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 521,413, filed Jan. 18, 1966, now abandoned.

This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 521,413 filed Jan. 18, 1966.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides new oxime ethers and pesticidal preparations containing them. The oxime ethers correspond to the formula c =n o (I) wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl radical; R is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radical; or wherein R and R form part of a saturated or unsaturated carbocycle or a 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocycle; R is a nitro, trifluoromcthyl, formyl, lower carbalkoxy, sulfamyl or monoor dilower alkylsulfamyl radical; R and R each is a hydrogen or halogen atom, an amino, monoor dilower alkylamino, lower alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, lower alkylthio, nitro, lower carbalkoxy, arylthio, lower aralkylthio group or 5-, 6- or 7-membered heterocycle. R in the above formula stands for a lower alkyl radical. Such radicals contain 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be branched or unbranched such as the methyl and ethyl groups or the normal or iso-propyl or butyl group or secondary or tertiary butyl group. Preferred groups, however, are besides the hydrogen atom the methyl and ethyl radicals.

R stands for an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic radical. The aliphatic radical may be branched or unbranched, saturated or unsaturated. Preferably such radicals contain up to 8 carbon atoms and are alkyl or alkenyl radicals which may be substituted or unsubstituted. Suitable substituents are for instance halogen atoms, such as fluorine, chlorine or bromine or hydroxy or alkoxy groups. The cycloaliphatic radicals contain 3 to 8 carbon atoms and may be saturated or unsaturated and monoor polycyclic. As a rule they contain 3 to 12 carbon atoms and are saturated. They preferably are monoor bicyclic and have 3 to 7 ring members. The araliphatic radicals contain in the aromatic moiety at least one benzene nucleus and in the aliphatic moiety preferably an unbrancheS chain containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms. This aliphatic chain may be saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted. Suitable substituents are hydroxy groups and halogen atoms, such as chlorine and especially bromine. Suitable chains contain 2 carbon atoms and are' rine, bromine and iodine; lower alkyl and alkoxy groups containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms; hydroxy groups; amino groups which may be substituted by one or twolower alkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl or lower alkanol radicals; nitro groups; lower alkyl carbamoyl radicals; phenoxy groups which may be substituted by one or more of the substituents enumerated above for the phenyl radical especially by nitro groups. The heterocyclic radicals coming into consideration particularly are 5- or 6-membered and contain at least one oxygen or sulfur especially however nitrogen atom. These heterocycles may be substituted, preferably by lower alkyl radicals, especially the methyl group. Examples of such heterocycles are i.a. pyridine and quinaldine compounds.

R stands for a trifluoromethyl, formyl, nitro, lower carbalkoxy, sulfamyl or monoor di-lower alkylsulfamy] group. The alkyl moieties of the carbalkoxy and alkylsulfamyl group contain 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be branched or unbranched. Preferred alkyl moieties contain 1 or 2 carbon atoms. However, suitable substitutent are not limited to the above enumeration. Thus also halogenalkyl groups quite generally may be used. Morever, halogen atoms such as chlorine, bromine and iodine; alkyl groups containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, thecarboxyl group; lower alkylor aryl-, especially phenylcarbamyl groups; the sulfonic acid groups; and lower alkylsulfonyl groups may be used likewise.

R and R each stands for a hydrogen or halogen atom, a lower alkyl, amino, monoor dilower alkylamino, lower alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, lower alkylthio, lower carbalkoxy. arylthio, lower aralkylthio, nitro or heterocyclic radical. The halogen atoms may be elected from fluorine, bromine, iodine and especially chlorine. The lower alkyl moieties enumerated above contain 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be branched or unbranched. The heterocyclic radicals are 5-, 6- or 7- membered, especially 5-' or 6-membered, and contain as heteroatoms one or more oxygen, sulfur or especially nitrogen atoms. Such heterocyclic radicals are i.a. the pyridino and morpholino radical. The cycloalkoxy radicals are 3 to 8-membered, especially however 6-membered. Representative of such radicals'is the cyclohexoxy radicaL'Especially suitable oxime ethers are those which correspond to the formulae c n o n k 5 c N o R R3 1 11 wherein R R R R and R have the meanings given above. More particularly R stands for a nitro, trifluoromethyl, formyl, methylcarbonyl, methylsulfamyl or a dimethylsulfamyl radical, R for a hydrogen or chlorine atom, an amino, methyl amino, dimethyl amino, isopropylamino, methoxy, ethoxy, benzylmercapto or morpholino group, and R for a hydrogen atom, a

methyl, sec.butyl, carbomethoxy, nitro or cyclohexoxy radical.

From among the compounds of formula (lll) those should be specially mentioned which correspond to the wherein R, and R have the meanings given above and R and R each is hydrogen, lower alkyl, such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec.butyl, tert- .butyl amyl or cycloalkyl, such as cyclopentyl or cyclohex l.

Fi om among the compounds of formulae (ll) and (Ill) those are preferred which correspond to the formula wherein R and R have the above meanings. More particularly R, may stand for hydrogen and R for a substituted phenyl radical. Such compounds correspond to the formulae x 2 arr-Om n o Q-R3 v and more specifically to the formulae arr-@mnn-o wherein R R and R have the meanings given above and X and X each stands for halogen. More specifically X represents chlorine bromine and iodine, whereas X stands for chlorine.

The oxime ethers of the formulae (1) to (V1) may be derived from aliphatic, araliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic aldehydes or ketones, and also from quinones and endocyclic ketones for example fluorenone, indanone, acenaphthenone, anthrone, N-methylpyridone, N-methylpiperidone, furfurol or nitrofurfurol.

Preferred use is made of oxime ethers derived from aliphatic aldehydes or ketones, from araliphatic aldehydes or ketones, or from aromatic or heterocyclic aldehydes or ketones.

Suitable aliphatic aldehydes are simply constituted aldehydes for example acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, butyraldehyde or aldehydes having a longer chain, for example heptaldehyde, stearaldehyde or unsaturated aldehydes for example crotonaldehyde. Suitable aliphatic ketones are simple ketones for example acetone, methylethyl ketone, hexanone-(3), diisopropylketone, mesityl oxide, and phorone. Suitable araliphatic or aromatic aldehydes and ketones are cinnamic aldehyde, hydrocinnamic aldehyde, halogen adducts or cinnamic aldehyde for example dibromo-cinnamic aldehyde, diiodo-cinnamic aldehyde, acetophenone, propiophenone, benzaldehyde, nuclear halogenated, alkylated, nitrated and alkoxylated benzaldehydes. Examples of suitable cyclic ketones are cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, cycloheptanone as well as their cyano derivatives. Suitable heterocyclic ketones and aldehydes are, for example, picoline aldehyde, nicotine aldehyde, isonicotine aldehyde and N-alkylpiperidones.

If such aldehydes or ketones contain aromatic radicals, their suitably substituted derivatives may likewise be used. These substituents may be of a non-functional kind, for example halogen atoms, nitro or nitroso groups, or of a functional kind or derived from functional substituents, being, for example hydroxyl, acyloxy, carbamoyloxy, alkoxy, anyloxy, thiol, acylthio, alkylthio, trifluoromethyl, cyano, formyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, diarylamino, carboxy or carbalkoxy groups.

VIa

By virtue of their broad biocidal spectrum the new oxime ethers offer the special advantage that they are suitable for combating a very wide variety of vegetable and animal pests. They are suitable not only for use asherbicides, which is the preferred utility, but when used in a concentration that does not produce any phytotoxic effects, they are very useful in plant protection for combating harmful micro-organisms, such as phyt0-' pathogenic fungi, for example Alternaria solani, Phythophthora infestans and Septoria apii, and act also against harmful insects, acarides, nematodes and their ova and larvae. They may also be used quite generally as microbicides, for example against Aspergillus species, and as insecticides, for example against midges and flies.

The oxime ethers according to this invention may be used per se or in admixture with suitable carriers. Such carriers may be solid or liquid. The pesticidal preparaarylamino,

tions thus formed may therefore contain a solid carrier, a solvent diluent, dispersant. wetting agent, adhesive, fertilizer and/or other known pesticides.

For the manufacture of solutions of compounds of the general formula (I) for direct spraying there may be used, for example, petroleum fractions of a high to medium boiling range, for example Diesel oil or kerosene, coal tar oil and oils of a vegetable or animal origin, as well as hydrocarbons for example alkylated naphthalenes, tetrahydronaphthalene if desired in conjunction or admixture with xylene mixtures, cyclohcxanols, ketones, chlorinated hydrocarbons for example trichloroethane or tetrachloroethane, trichlorethylene, trior tetrachlorobenzene. It is advantageous to use organic solvents boiling above 100C.

Aqueous forms of applications are prepared most advantageously from emulsion concentrates, pastes or wettable spray powders by addition of water. Suitable emulsifying or dispersing agents are non-ionic products, for example condensation products of aliphatic alcohols, amines or carboxylic acids containing a longchain hydrocarbon residue of about to carbon atoms with ethylene oxide, for example the condensation product of octadecyl alcohol with to mols of ethylene oxide, or of sybean fatty acid with 30 mols of ethylene oxide, or of commercial oleylamine with 15 mols of ethylene oxide, or of dodecylmercaptan with 12 mols of ethylene oxide. From among suitable anionic emulsifiers, there may be mentioned the sodium salt of dodecyl alcohol sulphuric acid ester, the sodium salt of dodecylbenzenesulphonic acid, the potassium or triethanolamine salt of oleic or abietic acid or of mixtures of these acids, or the sodium salt of a petroleum sulphonic acid. Suitable cationic dispersants are quaternary ammonium compounds, for example cetyl pyridinium bromide or dihydroxyethyl benzyl dodecyl ammonium chloride.

For the manufacture of dusting and casting preparations, there may be used as solid vehicles talcum, kaolin, bentonite, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, or coal, cork meal, wood meal or other materials of vegetable origin. It is also very advantageous to manufacture preparations in granular form. The various forms of application may contain the usual additives for improving the distribution, the adhesion, the stability towards rain or the penetration; as such substances there may be mentioned fatty acids, resin, glue, casein and alginates.

The preparations of this invention may be used by themselves or in conjunction or admixture with conventional pesticides, especially insecticides, acaricides, nematocides, bactericides or further fungicides or herbicides.

Especially potent herbicides are those preparations which contain as active ingredient a compound of the formula C N .A 2

wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic radical and R an aliphatic radical or an unsubstituted CHO, COOH or C00 alkyl, and B stands for hyor substituted phenyl group, A represents NO drogen, -NO COOH, -COOalkyl or chlorine. The phenyl radical R may carry various substituents, for example halogen atoms, nitro, alkyl, hydroxyl or alkoxy groups and/or carbamoyloxy groups.

Particularly potent herbicides are the compounds of the formula (Ia) wherein R and R have the following meanings:

Especially useful acaricides are those preparations which contain as active ingredient a compound of the formula wherein R represents a hydrogen atom and R a phenyl radical which may be substituted by halogen atoms or alkyl or alkoxy groups, or wherein R and R represent alkyl radicals or are part of an isocyclic residue.

Especially potent are the compounds of the formula Iva.

0x 0 H wry-G ocri H G cnca The active ingredients of formula I may be manufactured according to known methods, such as e.g.: A salt of ketoxime or aldoxime of the formula c NOMe wherein R and R have the above meanings and Me stands for a metal atom, preferably an alkali metal atomis reacted with a halogeno-benzene of the formula wherein R to R have the above meanings and Hal represents a fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine atom.

The reaction may be carried out in a solvent, for example in ethanol, methanol, acetonitrile or dioxan, as a rule at room temperature; in many cases it is accompanied by a spontaneous rise in temperature. The oxime ethers obtained in this manner are very easy to isolate by diluting the reaction solution with water. The ethers precipitate and may, if desired, be recrystallized. This process may be varied in that following upon the formation of the oxime ether one or several groups, R R R R are subsequently converted.

More especially, halogen atoms R and/or R may be exchanged for compounds containing active hydrogen atoms, thus for example for ammonia, primary or secondary aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic amines, alcohols, phenols, alkanethiols or thiophenols.

The oxime ethers accessible in this manner may take the syn-form or the anti-form. As a rule, they are obtained in the form of a mixture of isomers, which can 8 be resolved into the two forms by a usual operation, for example crystallization or adsorption. For the manufacture of the preparations of this invention, it suffices to use the mixture of isomers as obtained by the reac- 5 tion.

The present invention further includes new oxime ethers of the general formula wherein R and R have the above meanings and R, represents a trifluoromethyl, formyl, unsubstituted or substituted carboxyl or possibly alkylated sulphamyl residue, and R represents a hydrogen atom or a nitro group, or wherein R, stands for the nitro group and R for a possibly esterified carboxyl group.

The following Examples illustrate the invention:

EXAMPLE 1 A solution of sodium ethylate prepared from N5 parts of sodium and 500 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added to 76 parts of anisaldehyde in 400 parts by volume of absolute ethanol. During 10 minutes at 40C 101 parts of 4-chloro-l,3-dinitrobenzene in 300 parts by volume of absolute ehtanol are added drop, the temperature rising to 65C. The batch is cooled to room temperature, diluted with water, filtered and recrystallized from dimethylformamide+ethanol. The product melts at l87-l7.5C.

EXAMPLE 2 40 (2) Q-cir N OQNO OCl-l H0 EXAMPLE 3 A solution of sodium ethylate prepared from 18.5

parts of sodium and 500 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by drop during 30 minutes at room temperature to a solution of parts of cyclohexanone oxime and' 162 parts of 4-chloro-1,3- dinitrobenzene in 500 parts by volume of acetonitrile. After 4 hours, the batch :is diluted with water filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. The product melts at 105.5-l06C.

A solution of sodium ethylate prepared from 12 parts of sodium and 250 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by drop at room temperature to a solution of 50.5 parts of methyl-isopropoyl ketonoxime and 101.3 parts of 4-chloro- 1 ,3-dinitrobenzene in 400 parts by volume of acetonitrile, while stirring. After 12 hours, the batch is diluted with water, filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. The product melts at 85 to 86C EXAMPLE 5 Cll=l\ N02 An oxime salt solution of 380 parts of 2,6-

dichlorobenzaldehyde oxime, 46.3 parts of soidum in 4,000 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by drop during 1 hour to a cooled mixture of 405 parts of 4-chloro-1,3-dinitrobenzene and 500 parts by volume of acetonitrile while stirring and at a rate such that the temperature remains between -5C and +l0C. After 3 hours, the batch is diluted with ice water, filtered and recrystallized from dimethylformamide-l-acetonitrile. The product melts at 177 to 178C.

EXAMPLE 6 CH5-(l}HCH N N02 An oxime salt solution of 43.5 parts of isobutyraldoxime and 10.5 parts of sodium in 300 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by drop during 30 minutes at 5C to a mixture of 93 parts of 4-fluoro-l,3-dinitrobenzene and 200 parts by volume of acetonitrile, while stirring. The batch is then stirred for 3 hours at room temperature, diluted with ice water, filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. The product melts at 80 to 82C.

- EXAMPLE 7 A solution of 54 parts of the cyclohexanone oxime sodium salt in 800 parts by volume of dioxane is added drop by drop at room temperature during minutes to a mixture of 106 parts of 4-chloro 3-nitrobenzenesulphonic acid-( 1 )-dimethylamide in 500 parts by volume of dioxan while stirring. During the addition, the temperature rises to C. After 2 hours, the batch is heated for /2 hour at C, then diluted'with ice water, filtered, and recrystallized from ethanol. The product melts at 124 to 125C.

EXAMPLE 8 Ger N 110 An oxime salt solution prepared from 30 parts of 2- chlorobenzaldehyde oxime, 4.5 parts of sodium and 400 parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by drop at room temperature, during 30 minutes, to a solution of 42 parts of 5-ch1oro-2,4-dinitraniline in 500 parts by volume of acetonitrile while stirring. After 6 hours, the whole is diluted with ice water, filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. The product melts at 166 to 167C.

EXAMPLE 9 NO cu 2 0 CH cn II N 1x10 EXAMPLE l0 0 1r no cu; NH-CH-CH 23 Parts of isopropylamine in 100 parts of dioxan are added drop by drop during 1 hour, at 50C, to 77 parts of fiuorenone oxime-O-(5-ch1oro-2,4-dinitropheny1 ether) in 1,500 parts by volume of dioxan. The batch is then refluxed for 3 hours at C, another 20 parts of isopropylamine are added and the mixture is heated for 3 hours at 80C, diluted with ice water, filtered and digested with hot dimethylformamide. The product melts at 240 to 241C with decomposition.

EXAMPLE ll A thiophenolate solution prepared from sodium meth- No ylate and 29 parts of 4-chlorothiophenol in 800 parts (11) cl 2 by volume of dioxan is added drop by drop, under a 01 on N N0 current of nitrogen, during 30 minutes, to 63 parts of 5 Z-methoxybenzaldehydoxime-O-(5-chloro-2,4- s-' CH(CH dinitrophenyl ether) in 1,000 parts by volume of dioxan, while stirring. The batch is then heated for 1 hour oxime Salt P p from P of at 40C, diluted with ice water, filtered and recrystaldichlorobenzaldoxime, 10.3 parts of sodium and 600 Zed from dioxan+dimethylformamide' The product parts by volume of absolute ethanol is added drop by melts at 198C P at room temperature i h 1/2 hour to parts The following oxime ethers of 2,4-dinitrophenols of '5PmPyl(s'chloro'zr4'dmltrophenyl)sulphlde have been prepared by analogous methods described in 400 parts by volume of acetonitrile, while stirring. the foregoing Examples; After 3 hours, the batch is diluted with ice water, filtered and recrystallized from acetonitrile. The product metls at 191 to 192C.

EXAMPLE 12 001i N02 3 R N02 H n 0 N0 1 N 0 n0 1' a b 1 c 1 ggrnpound R c l-icltizg Point 16 (CH N--CH= 186 187 N02 17 @wkl: 189 1 0.5

. ll 18- CH IlH-CO-CH= 181 182 19 H0--CH= 185 186 C1 Que 199,5 200 C1 OH those described in the foregoing Examples:

T a b l e 2 ggmpound R1 l-Eolting Poi n1;

65 (H O-gut 168 169 F 66 c rx c= 72 74 H: 57 186 18"! Cl (decomp.)

(m on c 2/ 68 CH2 C(CH c: 126 127 70 c u o4a= 169 170 .e 0on Table 2 Continued Compound I-Eelting Point Ho. 0

72 ClCH= 202 203 (H1 73 (Ell -(MFG 68 69 CH CH C CH 74 CH 0: 110 112 ('3 CH CH3 1 /CH /C 75 CH CH. C: 104 105 CH C CH. CH3

76 CH "'(CH *C= brown oil N0 78 c1wn= 181 183 T; 79 CH C=CHC= brown oil C HS 80 CH (CH C: brozm oil 81 CH=CHC= 55 165 cooc gous to Table 3 t m O 6) 6) P 7 6 l 6 M 7 2 8 g o n n u m 9 o 1 mm mo p m n m w t 5e 1 e l 5 4 9 5 o 3 8d 8d h... m B B M M Wm M M HM l 1 l H H H w w mm C C 5 H I H 3 C 1 HI nm M 0 J m H l l M 5 5 C C C r C O H H 3 5 B l 2 2 w \/m H H m C H C C H R d m. a b c v 4 5 6 6 6 6 WM my 0 me, my 9 9 9 9 9 9 -29 The following oxime ethers of 2,4-dinitr0-6-carbome- R N thoxyphenol were prepared in a similar manner: 1

l C N 0 N02 R2 5 coocn '1 a b l e 4 gg 1 Meltng point c l c 1 97 Cl CH: 7 124 126 106 (Ni 119 12o w n c T :1 o 5 -(ontinued C0: J ll l'lli llCl, DC

CH l 3 I18 CH (I! CH C brown oil C H5 119 brown oil W 120 C H5- 75 76 Furthermore. the following oxime ethers of 2-nitro-4- formylphenol were prepared analogously:

Table 6 Compound R No.

Melting point i I 1 1 H|kcH= (decoxnp.)

Furthermore, the following oxime ethers of 2-nitro-4- trifluoromethylphenol were prepared analogously:

R NO

c N- @c The 2,6-dinitro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl ether of the acetonoxime (compound No. 125) melts at 80- 81C.

Furthermore, the following oxime ethers of 2,4,6-

trinitrophenol were manufactured analogouly:

2 c N 0 R0 N02 T a b l e '7 Compound R Melting point No. 1 c

05 0 123 c n cr cn= 143 144 r CH c 124 CH2 CH c= B3 85 Cll C CH3 CH Br 124 a lib-@CH: 149 151 (decomp.) Br

I ,2 124 b H0Cli= 182 183 d on I r: p

Compound R1 Melting point No. c

. I 127 CH3 114 115 c: CH3

c1 v 4 12s Q 147 148 N0 H OH: 157 158 I CH3 .r

The following oxime ethers of 2-nitro-4-N,N-dimethyl- The cyclohexanone oxime-2-nitro-4-N-methylsul- 1 2 Furthermore, the followong oxime ethers of 2,4-dini- 5 tro-S-aminophenol were manufactured analogously: C N O SO,\N(CH..) R 4 3 2 T a b l o 8 Compound R Melting point NO. 00

130 H cn= 183 184 I Br . I 131 nocn= 174 176 I /(:Il. (:11, c Z 1'52 CH2 ClL C-Cll C: 142 144 I CH "CH2 a:

133 CH (IJH (l:= 111 113 cit. (1H

133 a i no cu= I 184-185 (decomp.)

Tablej 9 Compound R Melgi'ng point No. c

135 210 (dccmnp.) 

1. A COMPOUND OF THE FORMULA
 2. A process according to claim 1 wherein the phosphine is tributyl
 3. A process according to claim 1 wherein the phosphine is triphenyl
 3. The compound of claim 2 of the formula
 4. The compound of claim 2 of the formula
 4. A process as in claim wherein the carboxylic acid is acetic acid and the
 5. A process as in claim 1 wherein the carboxylic acid is caproic acid and
 5. The compound of claim 2 of the formula
 6. A process as in claim 1 wherein the carboxylic acid is caproic acid and the sulfenic acid amide is p-chlorobenzene-sulfenic acid diethyl amide.
 7. A process as in claim 1 wherein the carboxylic acid is benzoic acid and
 8. A process as in claim 1 wherein the carboxylic acid is p-toluic acid and
 9. A process for the production of an organic carboxylic acid amide, which comprises reacting a metal salt of an organic carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of acetic acid, caproic acid, benzoic acid, and p-toluic acid, wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of copper, silver, mercury, nickel and lead, with a sulfenic acid n-butylamide, n-butylsulfenic acid n-butylamide, p-chlorobenzene sulfenic acid diethylamide and benzenesulfenic acid anilide, in an inert solvent in the presence of an amount of a phosphine selected from the group consisting of tributyl phosphine and triphenyl phosphine at least equimolar to the amount of sulfenic acid amide. 